[OE-core] bitbake webkit-gtk fails with clean temp dir

[Richard Purdie]

On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 02:05 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> On Tuesday, October 04, 2011 02:40:49 PM Richard Purdie wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-10-03 at 20:45 +0200, Andreas Müller wrote:
> > > On Monday, October 03, 2011 05:29:52 PM Gary Thomas wrote:
> > > > >> NOTE: package webkit-gtk-1.5.1+svnr90727-r0: task do_compile: Failed
> > > > >> ERROR: Task 7 (/home/Superandy/data/oe-core/sources/openembedded-core/meta/recipes-sato/webkit/webkit-gtk_svn.bb, do_compile) failed with exit code '1'
> > > > >>
> > > > >> ideas what causes this?
> > > > >
> > > > > no idea, but I get the same error
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > It builds in Yocto/Poky so you might compare with those recipes.
> > > Dit you pull [1] and rebuild webkit-gtk?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > some investigation later: by diff'ing log files created by working environment with the current environment I fell over log.do_configure: 
> > > 
> > > --disable-dependency-tracking 
> > > 
> > > was added in [1]. Tried manual bisecting by
> > > 
> > > git reset --hard 288343e30604b944dc18fd82172febd314d9c520
> > > 
> > > é voilà: webkit-gtk builds again. Will send a patch with --enable-dependency-tracking after testing...
> > > 
> > > Andreas
> > 
> > 
> > I'm planning to add this commit:
> > 
> > http://cgit.openembedded.org/cgit.cgi/openembedded-core/commit/?h=master-next&id=d53a0282be132a4ced507c0277925ae4a0f2f40d
> > 
> > which means you should just be able to set:
> > 
> > CONFIGUREOPT_DEPTRACK = ""
> > 
> > for this recipe rather than having multiple configure options and hoping
> > the right one wins.
> I thought recipe's EXTRA_OECONF is by design ensured being appended and thereby overwriting options of same target.
> > 
> > I'd also note this means there is a bug somewhere in the webkit
> > makefiles...
> Agreed - somebody with time & skills willing to take care?

I'm not sure I have the time or the right skillset for that one but at
least we've highighted there is a problem there...

> If there are no objections I'll send a patch with
> 
> CONFIGUREOPT_DEPTRACK = ""
> 
> for webkit-gtk as soon as d53a0282be132a4ced507c0277925ae4a0f2f40d becomes part of master branch

I've gone ahead and added this since I think we're all agreed on what is
needed here :)

Cheers,

Richard